OPERATION
After power and antennas are connected and a crystal (or crystals) has been installed, your
Turn VOLUME "on", by rotating to the right. Rotate SQUELCH fully counterclockwise. Set all the Channel
If you want the
If you do not want automatic scanning on one or more channels, press their Channel
If you want to stay tuned to one channel only, press SCAN/MANUAL button again to make it pop out to the MANUAL position. The Receiver will stop automatic scanning; now press MANUAL SELECTOR button to advance to the channel you want to listen to (as indicated by the Light). For MANUAL scanning, the receiver can be either "squelched" or "unsquelched", for Automatic scanning, SQUELCH must be set to eliminate the background noise .
To eliminate the annoying background noise, rotate SQUELCH clockwise until the background noise just stops. You can't adjust SQUELCH properly while listening to a station, so wait till signals cease. If you set SQUELCH as noted above, the
PRIORITY:
In most areas there is usually one channel you will want to monitor consistently. The Priority function allows you to do this and yet you can still scan all the other channels.
When the PRIORITY Button is pressed in, the scanner w ill operate as
This priority channel sampling occurs almost instantaneously and if the priority channel is not active, the scanner returns to the channel being monitored previously. This
If the priority channe l is active, the scanner will continue to monitor it until it clears, and then return to the channel previously being monitored.
SCAN RATE (Scan Speed):
You can vary the scanning rate from about 10 to 20 channels per second by adjusting SCAN RATE. Use the setting that seems best for your needs. It is particularly useful when using
SCAN DELAY:
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